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Quotes About Borders

These are our borders, and we have to secure our borders.
~ Robert Brady
I want Israel to have borders. For that, I need a map. I need a map on which our borders are specified.
~ Tzipi Livni
There will never be peace unless we have open borders. But that does not mean open on our side and you continue to hit me on the other.
~ Reuven Rivlin
I think that each country must protect its own borders, and that is why I'm simply asking for the abolition of Schengen.
~ Marine Le Pen
Most Americans do not support amnesty, especially without securing the borders.
~ John Fleming
One of the greatest things that could really happen to Africa is for us to get rid of the borders and for the leadership not to think that the countries belong to them... We didn't create the borders to start with.
~ Hugh Masekela
We have to get control of our borders.
~ Mike Coffman
All I can say is we will fully utilise our right to self-defence. No one can just do what they want on our borders.
~ Amit Shah
Our borders are being overrun.
~ Kris Kobach
In Israel, you see strong borders as the best way to ensure peace, while in Europe, people see it as a cause of war.
~ Douglas Murray
Football Beyond Borders is about learning, establishing new beliefs in an ability to succeed.
~ Chris Smalling
Medicine also disregards national boundaries.
~ Irving Langmuir
People have no concept of boundaries.
~ Lamman Rucker
We're living in a world where international governance is failing to overcome borders, but technology is succeeding in removing them.
~ Taavet Hinrikus
Operation Sovereign Borders has been one of Australia's greatest national security policy successes.
~ Scott Morrison
A lot of the 'leave' campaign was centered around a thinly veiled xenophobia, just 'control our own borders.' It's not a good look. I don't think it represents Britain; I don't think it represents the U.K. all too well. It breaks my heart for my generation in Britain who are going to suffer.
~ Hozier
People who live in hermit states like North Korea, Burma, and Cuba already suffer from global isolation. Fed on a diet of propaganda, they don't know what's happening inside their borders or outside of them. By increasing their seclusion, sanctions make it easier for dictators to blame external enemies for a country's suffering.
~ Jacob Weisberg
The natural barriers between England and Scotland were not sufficient to prevent the extension of the Saxon settlements and kingdoms across the border.
~ Goldwin Smith
Secure, safe borders with physical barriers, proper technology, manpower, and a sufficient number of judges is attainable and important to the security of our nation. We must also treat these children at the border with compassion and decency.
~ Jeff Van Drew
Overly simplistic suggestions that we ban people from entering this country, based on religion, or ban people from an entire region of the world is counterproductive. It will not work. We need to build bridges to communities, to American-Muslim communities right now, to encourage them to help us in our homeland security efforts.
~ Jeh Johnson
Here is the time for the sayable, here is its home. Speak and attest. More than ever the things we can live with are falling away, and ousting them, filling their place, a will with no image. Will beneath crusts which readily crack whenever the act inside swells and seeks new borders.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
God promises something that has never yet been true of the earthly Jerusalem: "I will make peace your governor and righteousness your ruler. No longer will violence be heard in your land, nor ruin or destruction within your borders, but you will call your walls Salvation and your gates Praise" (vv. 17-18).
~ Randy Alcorn
To be injured means that one has the chance to reflect upon injury, to find out the mechanisms of its distribution, to find out who else suffers from permeable borders, unexpected violence, dispossession, and fear, and in what ways.
~ Judith Butler
Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.
~ Warren Christopher